Power Line
Power Line is an American conservative political blog, founded in May 2002. Its posts were originally written by three lawyers who attended Dartmouth College together, namely John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff. The site is published by Publir LLC, founded by Joseph Malchow, also a Dartmouth graduate.
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Type of site | Conservative] blog and news aggregator |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | May 27, 2002 |
| Created by | John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff |
| URL | www |
| Launched | 2002 |
| Current status | Active |
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| Conservatism in the United States |
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The site gained recognition among the American right for its role in covering the Killian documents story that aired during the 2004 Presidential campaign about forged documents relating to President George W. Bush's term of service in the Texas Air National Guard, which kept him out of the Vietnam War.
In 2004, Power Line was named Time magazine's first-ever "Blog of the Year".[1] When AOL added blogs to their news website in 2007, Power Line was one of the five blogs included. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Power Line as one of the five best-read national conservative blogs.[2]
Contributors
The main contributors to Power Line are Steven F. Hayward, John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff. Susan Vass, writing under the name "Ammo Grrrll", contributes a humor column to the site each Friday.
References
- Kher, Unmesh (December 19, 2004). "Blogs Have Their Day". Time.
- Budoff Brown, Carrie (13 June 2007). "GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments". Politico.